Call for Papers - Call for Tutorials and Special Sessions
IEEE CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING, AND EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS
IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
August 24-27, 2011
www.icdl-epirob.org
Conference description
The past decade has seen the emergence of a new scientific field that
studies how intelligent biological and artificial systems develop
sensorimotor, cognitive and social abilities, over extended periods of
time, through dynamic interactions of their brain and body with their
physical and social environments. This field lies at the intersection of
a number of scientific and engineering disciplines including
Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Linguistics,
Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence,
Machine Learning, Robotics, and Philosophy. Various terms have been
associated with this new field such as Autonomous Mental Development,
Epigenetic Robotics, Developmental Robotics, etc., and several
scientific meetings have been stablished. The two most prominent
conferences of this field, the International Conference on Development
and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on Epigenetic
Robotics (EpiRob), are now joining forces and invite submissions for a
joint meeting in 2011, to explore and extend the interdisciplinary
boundaries of this field.
Keynote speakers
Andrew Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Jean Mandler (overview talk), University of California, San Diego
Erin Schuman, Max Planck Insitute for Brain Research, Framkfurt am Main
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig
Call for papers
We invite submissions for this exciting window into the future of
developmental sciences. Submissions which establish novel links between
brain, behavior and computation are particularly encouraged.
Topics of interest include - but are not limited to:
- The development and emergence of perceptual, motor, cognitive,
emotional, social, and communicational skills in biological systems and
robots
- General principles of development and learning
- Neural and behavioral plasticity
- Grounding of knowledge and development of representations
- Biologically inspired architectures for cognitive development and
open-ended development
- Models of emotionally driven behavior
- Mechanisms of intrinsic motivation, exploration and play
- Embodied cognition: Foundations and applications
- Social development in humans and robots
- Use of robots in applied settings such as autism therapy
- Epistemological approaches to Epigenetic / Developmental Robotics
Submissions will be accepted in two categories:
Full six-page papers: Accepted manuscripts will be included in the
conference proceedings published by IEEE. They will be selected for
either an oral presentation or a featured poster presentation at the
conference; featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation
as part of the main conference session. For articles requiring more than
six pages, up to two additional pages may be submitted at an extra charge.
Two-page poster abstracts: The aim of this format is to encourage
dissemination of late-breaking results or work that is not sufficiently
mature for a full paper. These submissions will NOT be included in the
conference proceedings (but the short abstracts will appear online at
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
http://www.frontiersin.org/neurorobotics/about). Accepted abstracts will
be presented during the evening poster sessions.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the online conference management
system, available at the conference website www.icdl-epirob.org. For the
paper preparation, follow the instructions at the conference website.
Call for tutorials
We invite experts in different areas to organize a 3-hour tutorial,
which will be held on the first day of the conference. Participants in
tutorials are asked to register for the main conference as well.
Tutorials are meant to provide insights into specific topics as well as
overviews that will inform the interdisciplinary audience about the
state-of-the-art in child development, neuroscience, robotics, or any of
the other disciplines represented at the conference.
Submissions (max. two pages) should be sent no later than March 15th to
Katharina Rohlfing (kjr at uni-bielefeld.de) and Ian Fasel
(ianfasel at cs.arizona.edu) including:
- Title of tutorial
- Tutorial speaker(s), including short CVs;
- Concept of the tutorial; target audience or prerequisites.
All proposals submitted will be subjected to a review process.
Call for special sessions
A special session will be an opportunity to present a topic in depth,
for which format a slot of 1.5 hours will be offered. Special session
organizers are invited to submit (1) a summary (250 words) describing
the topic, purpose and target audience of the session as well as (2)
abstracts of papers (each 250 words) that will constitute the group of
presentations. It is suggested that a special session includes three
oral presentations to allow for sufficient presentation and discussion
time. A discussant (from another discipline) may be added to the special
session.
Tutorial and Special Session proposals should be sent no later than
March 15th to Katharina Rohlfing (kjr at uni-bielefeld.de) and Ian Fasel
(ianfasel at cs.arizona.edu).
All proposals submitted will be subjected to a review process.
Abstract and Paper Submission Deadline: March 28, 2011
Notification Due: May 16, 2011
Final Version Due: June 20, 2011
Conference: August, 24-27, 2011
Child-care
For families, child-care services will be provided. Please contact
Katharina Rohlfing (kjr at uni-bielefeld.de) concerning your interest in
child-care services by the end of May. The detailed organization will be
planned according to the needs.
Yukie Nagai
Publicity Chair of ICDL-EpiRob2011
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Yukie Nagai, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Osaka University
Visiting Researcher, Bielefeld University
yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jphttp://cnr.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~yukie/